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Italian Food Italian Food Quick/Easy Recipes Le Basi Classic Recipes From Kyle Phillips, your Guide to Italian Food This week started out cool enough, but then temperatures shot into the high 30s C, or 90s F. Which are actually fairly normal at this time of year, but then they arrive suddenly they seem much hotter than they are. No matter, hot weather is an excellent excuse for cool dishes of one sort or another. Almost Eggplant Parmesan: A Lighter Version Of Eggplant Parmesan Melanzane alla Parmigiana, Eggplant Parmesan, is one of Naples's signature dishes, and extraordinarily good. However, preparing it is time consuming, and it is quite rich. This is a lighter version, which is also quite nice served cool.Read more It's much too hot for Meat Sauce Assuming the temperatures we had today hold. Tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, and other vegetables are perfect when the thermometer climbs. Some variations: Pasta alla Primavera with Toamtoes and Zucchini Pasta alla Primavera with... Read more Almost Wordless Wednesday: Pizza! There's nothing quite like pizza from a wood-fired oven, well topped with choice ingredients, and Elisa, at the Pizzeria Cotta a Puntino in Florence, used buffalo-milk mozzarella, anchovy fillets, and... Read more Ingredients: Pesto Sauce No, pesto sauce isn't quite an ingredient (though it is nice added to minestrone), but it is one of the finest summer pasta sauces. And you could do more than just season plain pasta: Pesto Lasagna Pesto Pizza Testaroli al Pesto A couple of non-basil pesto sauces: Pesto Rosso, with sun-dried tomatoes and almonds Zesty Sicilian Red Pesto Italian Food Ads Italian Food Recipe Italian Menues Italian Pizza Italian Dessert Italy Food Pasta Featured Articles Salamureci, A Sicilian Chilled Tomato Soup Zuppa Fredda alla Menta, Chilled Mint Soup Caponata alla Siciliana Pasta and Eggplant Parmesan, Parmigiana di Pasta... Carpaccio Vitello Tonnato   More from About.com Plan a Unique Vegas Wedding The minister, music and champagne are just the beginning -- why not get married aboard a helicopter or have a pirate swing in to deliver your rings? Arrrr! More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More> This newsletter is written by: Kyle Phillips Italian Food Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Italian Food newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Seen Here and There Gelato! Ice Cream! Sorbetti! Make Ice Cream in a Baggie In Italian: Gelato Casalingo (video) Advertisement